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Thus equipped, the ruffian for we could see that he was a ruffian in every movement and in every line of his animal face swaggered towards us, nodded to Smith in a patronizing manner, and after a broad stare of half-defiance and half-wonder at Fred and myself, an act of impertinence of which we took no notice, he began examining the animals as though he was a connoisseur in horseflesh.
Yet even then there had been something else, some recognition of the fact that even this was not an end to itself alone.... Then youth the first years at Cloom and that wonderful incursion into the London that was as past as he was, that London that had been half-wonder, half-nightmare, and that had held his love for Blanche.
For a long time he sat there gazing at the face of Hetty Castleton, a look of half-wonder, half-triumph in his eyes. There could be no doubt as to the identity of the subject. The face was hers, the lovely eyes were hers: the velvety, dreamy, soulful eyes that had haunted him for years, as he now believed. In no sense could the picture be described as a portrait.
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